"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."

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"Having a job does not mean living."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."

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"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."

Leonard Woodcock, American Celebrity

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Frank Wedekind, German Playwright

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"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."

Asa Gray, American Scientist

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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."

Dave Van Ronk, American Musician

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"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."

Olin Miller, American Columnist

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"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."

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"Having a job does not mean living."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."

"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."

"Monuments are for the living, not the dead."

"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."

"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."

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